Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pron] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That was my business partner Paul ; he and his wife are here — or rather they 're almost here — they 're stuck on the wrong side of your jeep . |
| 2 | The boats are there to serve Lappish communities , or rather they were there . |
| 3 | He frequents a seedy restaurant — ‘ You see this wretched tavern I spend all my time in , and I enjoy it , or rather it 's not that I really enjoy it , but one must have somewhere to perch ’ : this is the form which the Dostoevsky no-home takes with him , likewise the transpersonal motif first voiced by Marmeladov in this novel , that a man must have somewhere to go . |
| 4 | I was usually the active partner , or rather it was usually I who initiated a kiss or an embrace . |
| 5 | Effectively it makes the tie a one match game at Elland Road — if we win 1–0 or better we are through . |
| 6 | Or perhaps they were not talking . |
| 7 | Or perhaps they were still wandering in that long stretch of country which lay between New York and the State of Wisconsin ? |
| 8 | Somehow I must have missed the original LPs ( or perhaps they were never released this side of the Atlantic ) , but here are Jean-Pierre Rampal , Isaac Stern , Yo-Yo Ma mixing it up with Japanese instrumentalists , playing traditional oriental music alongside pieces by Yamada , Miyagi , and Yoshizawa , amongst others . |
| 9 | Or perhaps it 's just the effect of the Peter Pan collars . |
| 10 | Or perhaps it 's just a way of admitting a preference for empty ferries . |
| 11 | Or perhaps it 's just the mix . |
| 12 | And the novel which got written breathes life into this sentence 's very unpromising warrant for the ‘ truth ’ of what is being told , namely that there are hard facts or perhaps it is just being made up . |
| 13 | Or perhaps it is not . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps the target has been badly chosen or perhaps it is not clearly seen . |
| 15 | Fate is cruel , or perhaps it is n't , but it does n't answer to me . |
| 16 | Here , too , we have a mystery ; this time a psychological one , or perhaps it is really the province of anthropology , or archaeology , or … |
| 17 | It could be that your lack of confidence concerns home life ; perhaps you hate people coming to see you because your home is not beautiful — or perhaps it is never tidy . |
| 18 | Or perhaps it was not so much my feelings that had changed as my thoughts . |
| 19 | Or perhaps it was when Margaret Thatcher locked the prime minister away behind heavy iron gates . |
| 20 | Or perhaps it was just the usual look of her rather weird eyes . |
| 21 | Princess Anne smiled at me as she went by , or Perhaps it was just my imagination . |
| 22 | Or perhaps it was just shock at seeing me without the gag . |
| 23 | Finally the interrogators must have lost their patience , or perhaps it was just the heat of the vodka . |
| 24 | Or perhaps it was just lack of choice , the need for a home of her own and a child . |
| 25 | I can not resist the feeling that the Government 's extraordinary surrender yesterday to German bullying over the recognition of Croatia had something to do with the need to appease German public opinion , which is turning nasty on the whole process — or perhaps it was just sucking up to the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. |
| 26 | Perhaps the enormity of what he was doing got to him — the difference , perhaps between hardened professional and gifted amateur — or perhaps it was simply that the holes became too tough for him . |
| 27 | Youthful confidence , I suppose , or perhaps it was simply that I felt I had no alternative , there was nothing else I could do . ’ |
| 28 | Glancing from beneath her lashes , Lindsey studied his profile , and found it unnerving , or perhaps it was simply that the confining space of the small car did n't allow much distance between driver and passenger . |
| 29 | It was small , or perhaps it was very big but a long way off . |
| 30 | Or perhaps it was merely an accident that Marcus had picked up those utterances of his ancestors . |